review the vocabulary
select one term to place on your vocabulary wall paint chip. Fill in each strip on the paint chip as follows: Term, Definition (may be summarized), definition in your own words OR term in a sentence, Image
Add your paint chip to the vocabulary wall. Read it out loud to the class as you tape it on.
As you view this video, compare the scientific and everyday meaning of the term Theory and identify 4 or more misconceptions regarding the theory of evolution
Complete the first 2 columns of the vocabulary familiarity worksheet:
a. Do online research to List the 4 principles of Natural Selection
check out the online explanation and activity about Natural Selection from the Science channel. Read the introduction. Play the Survival Game; for your best game, draw a picture of the 3 critters you selected to evolve and how many years you made it. Then take the 10 question quiz. WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS to the quiz as you take it and turn all of your work in to your instructor.
Run the Natural Selection and evolution __simulation__ as you do the simulation online, complete the worksheet
Go to the HHMI short films siteand download the most appropriate video format of The Making of the Fittest: Evolving Switches, Evolving Bodies for your device. Watch the 15m video; take the quiz as you view (provided by the teacher, or you can download it). Then do the online stickleback lab ; completing the lab guide as you go (also downloadable )
4. Explain how artificial selection has led to offspring through successive generations that can be very different in appearance and behavior from their distant ancestors a. Define artificial selection b. Identify species that appear and behave different than their ancestors
Research option: choose your favorite dog breed and then research a pedigree to see how dogs were chosen for that breed. What is the breed standard and what type of dogs are chosen as champions and breeders. Trace a pedigree back as far as possible and propose the artificial selection that selected for those traits. Would these traits be selected for or against if this were natural selection? Extra credit: interview owners of this breed and look for commonalities in behavior, physical attributes and disease susceptibility.
5. Explain why genetic variation within a population is essential for evolution to occur
a. Compare and contrast sexual and asexual reproduction b. Identify how sexual reproduction leads to genetic variation
c. describe advantageous and disadvantageous characteristics of an organism
7. Explain how genetic variation between two populations of a given species is due, in part, to different selective pressures acting independently on each population and how, over time, these differences can lead to the development of new species.
Big Ideas:
How can we identify and describe patterns around us?
How do things change over time?
How is evidence used to support a point of view?
review the vocabulary
select one term to place on your vocabulary wall paint chip. Fill in each strip on the paint chip as follows: Term, Definition (may be summarized), definition in your own words OR term in a sentence, Image
Add your paint chip to the vocabulary wall. Read it out loud to the class as you tape it on.
2. Describe how Darwin developed the theory of evolution
complete the web questcomplete the group activity
a. Do online research to List the 4 principles of Natural Selection
b. State the theory of Common Decent
c. Identify evidence used to explain Evolution
- Go to the HHMI short films siteand download the most appropriate video format of The Making of the Fittest: Evolving Switches, Evolving Bodies for your device. Watch the 15m video; take the quiz as you view (provided by the teacher, or you can download it). Then do the online stickleback lab ; completing the lab guide as you go (also downloadable )
- check out the Video "great transformations" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6573746166487556397# and complete the accompanying worksheet :
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- Then check out these examples of evolutionary evidence: evolutionary gems or for a more advanced perspective: HHMI lectures
- Now do your own research on-line or at the library to find evidence used to explain evolution
d. Trace the development of the theory of Evolution over time3. Use scientific evidence to show evolutionary relationships through
a. Fossil records.i. Explain why gaps exist in fossil evidence
b. Homologus structures
c. Genetic and/or biochemical similarities
What Darwin Never Knew, a NOVA documentary aired on PBS see for free at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/darwin-never-knew.html or watch the embedded youtube video:
As you watch, complete the worksheet
http://www.mitochondrialdnatesting.com/seven-daughters-of-eve.html
http://www.darwins-theory-of-evolution.com/
4. Explain how artificial selection has led to offspring through successive generations that can be very different in appearance and behavior from their distant ancestors
a. Define artificial selection
b. Identify species that appear and behave different than their ancestors
Research option: choose your favorite dog breed and then research a pedigree to see how dogs were chosen for that breed. What is the breed standard and what type of dogs are chosen as champions and breeders. Trace a pedigree back as far as possible and propose the artificial selection that selected for those traits. Would these traits be selected for or against if this were natural selection? Extra credit: interview owners of this breed and look for commonalities in behavior, physical attributes and disease susceptibility.
5. Explain why genetic variation within a population is essential for evolution to occur
a. Compare and contrast sexual and asexual reproductionb. Identify how sexual reproduction leads to genetic variation
The Mating Game - PBS
6. Explain how competition for finite resources and the changing environment promotes natural selection on offspring survival
a. identify finite resourcesb. give examples of how environments change
Peppered Moth Simulation
c. describe advantageous and disadvantageous characteristics of an organism
7. Explain how genetic variation between two populations of a given species is due, in part, to different selective pressures acting independently on each population and how, over time, these differences can lead to the development of new species.
http://www.jdenuno.com/PDFfiles/HardyWeinberg03.pdf8. Explain why evolution is identified as a unifying theory of biology
9. Articulate the implications of evolutionary principle for medicine, agriculture and conservation.
Darwin's Secret Notebook, a National Geographic video, rent through netflix
http://jb004.k12.sd.us/my%20website%20info/BIOLOGY%201/CHARLES%20DARWIN%20WEB%20QUEST/CHARLES%20DARWIN%20WEBQUEST.htm
evolution discussion from NPR
Tibetan Altitude Aptitude is Evolutionary article and questions
resources:
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/resourcelibrary.php
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/4588289/The-Vatican-claims-Darwins-theory-of-evolution-is-compatible-with-Christianity.html
http://www.darwinawards.com